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John McBride @johncodes.com · 19/05/2026

We out here London 📼📼📼 !!! @bizza.pizza

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 17/05/2026

It’s seriously SO good - I’m shocked how big of a leap this feels like from switch 1

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 17/05/2026

What 😭 man, I try to avoid fast fashion for obvious a) quality sucks b) ethics suck. Where are the good, ethical clothing brands for men? I don’t want to spend an arm and a leg but feels increasingly impossible to find well made, ethical, cost efficient brands

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 04/05/2026

Steam controller already sold out 😪😪 and scalpers out here with 4x markup 🐀

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 20/04/2026

Had a SUPER fun time getting my workstation back in working order over the weekend 😭 seems the main PCIe slot on my motherboard is on the fritz - thankfully, the backup PCIe slot, although not as fast, works fine! With prices the way they are, this things gotta last a few more years!!!

John McBride @johncodes.com · 14/04/2026

SF coffee #2 - high wire in Oakland. Light roast, floral, single origin. Mochi donuts off the hook. 5/5.

John McBride @johncodes.com · 13/04/2026

Hello San Francisco 🌉 !!! Coffee #1, Sigh Glass - strong, floral, tasty, good vibes, acidic. 5/5.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 11/04/2026

nix, anytime it is mentioned:

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 06/02/2026

📼 We've shipped a TUI for tapes!! Want to understand your previous agent sessions? Want to see success rates? Want to quickly grok token costs? We got it!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 27/01/2026

Mistakes have been made.

John McBride @johncodes.com · 21/01/2026

me building software for AI

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 21/01/2026

I’ve unlocked entirely new levels of productivity having a giant ass multi-sided whiteboard (my wife is NOT pleased 🤣)

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 19/01/2026

Big things are happening 🤖🔧🧠

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 12/01/2026

It's a MacOS service for managing "windows" (i.e., the applications that you can move around on the desktop).

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 21/11/2025

Why? During a time when we are experience one of the worst provider shortages in our system's history, we undercut this extremely important field. Nurses are the ones there at the bedside caring, watching, and making sure you're safe. And maybe more importantly, they make the system work.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 03/11/2025

Hit 1000 contributions in 2025 on Halloween! Wild!! 📈

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 27/07/2025

I loved every minute of living in Denver. I grew up here, I played in the mountains, I started my tech career here. But on to bigger and brighter things: I’m incredibly proud of Shelby for her accomplishments. We’re headed to Yale for a few years and she’ll be doing her masters!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 13/06/2025

Ah yes, good. The totally legitimate and supreme financial store of value, “FARTCOIN”, is now on Coinbase, a very serious and solid financial institution.

John McBride @johncodes.com · 17/04/2025

please remind me to never post on reddit.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 26/02/2025

They said it couldn't be done. They said I was crazy: but here it is, here we are. Agent-api with Anthropic support: github.com/agent-api/an...

John McBride @johncodes.com · 24/02/2025

Seek, and you shall find. Ask, and you shall receive. Gemini provider coming very soon to agent-api: github.com/agent-api/ge...

John McBride @johncodes.com · 23/02/2025

A good breakthrough on agent-api to enable streaming agents (i.e., where the delta is parsed chunk by chunk): probably table stakes for most workflows, but getting there!! Check out the examples: github.com/agent-api/ex...

4. You can prompt it to use its web search capabilities despite it not needing to. This leads me to believe that the available tools for Grok 3 may be prompt based and not programmatic: there may be no measure in not giving the LLM access to certain tools in certain conditions.

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3. With abit more fancy prompt injection techniques, it's fairly simple to get it to ignore the saftey measures it does have:

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2. Exfiltrating it's system message (or at least the contents of its system message) was fairly easy:

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I advise extreme caution using xAI's Grok, especially for programmatic or agentic uses - it appears they have nearly no prompt injection mitigation. 1. Very basic prompt injection attacks work, even when it attempts to use one of its tools, it still falls back to the user provided prompt:

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Skill issue: 380K if you actually build for release 🤷

John McBride @johncodes.com · 19/02/2025

your outie is proficient with neovim and has a well maintained library of lua configs.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 31/01/2025

The energy I’m bringing to this weekend

John McBride @johncodes.com · 26/01/2025

Got very lucky with a few Innistrad boosters!!Couldn’t believe I got Edgar! 🧛‍♂️

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 20/01/2025

In honor of Bsky video being amazing, here’s one of my personal favorite tech TikTok bangers

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 11/01/2025

what is an AI agent? Spent some time this morning thinking about "agents": what are they? how do they work? are they the silver bullet for all problems in software? I dive really deep on this one: no framework, just JSON to understand how agents work. johncodes.com/archive/2025...

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 06/01/2025

and this is what hacker news has me doing over my lunch break lol

John McBride @johncodes.com · 03/01/2025

Pretty unreal iTerm2 vulnerability that's been live for the last few months. Update immediately. Clean your ssh hosts. Contact sys admins if necessary.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 29/12/2024

If you’re wondering why Ghostty is such a big deal, it’s because terminal maintainers for years (Kitty, iTerm, Alacritty, etc) have been prescribing HOW you should use your tools: example, Kitty thinks using tmux is a bad idea and actively makes it harder to use. Ghostty makes zero assumptions.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 18/12/2024

Busy busy year 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 16/12/2024

8k on YouTube! Thank you to EVERYONE who watched a video and subscribed: I still remember being bored during the pandemic and wanting to share my love of tech with the world. So I started a channel! It's been a fun journey, excited to invest more in it soon: www.youtube.com/@JohnCodes

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 07/11/2024

Very, VERY excited to give Ghostty a try. So far, amazing. Really enjoying the speed alongside all the modern features. Exciting times!!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 05/11/2024

Voted yesterday for Harris with Arlo and Zoey!!! 🐶 Go out and vote!!!!!!!!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 01/11/2024

My new obsession: Webfishing. Super cozy, casual game. Can chat with randoms, customize your little guy, lots of fish to catch, gives Animal Crossing. Perfect 🤌👨‍🍳 lemme know if you wanna jump in and play!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 30/10/2024

Happy GitHub universe! (also, lol, Alcatraz in the background)

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 25/10/2024

Sound on 🔊 (jumpscare warning .. ?) Maybe the stupidest #Neovim plugin I've made yet. But if it isn't just so much fun being a programmer and clowning around with this stuff, I love it.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 23/10/2024

As much as I would love to say the tides are changing for gaming on Linux, unless the gaming industry wakes up and makes it significantly easier for anyone on any OS to use their product, this chart will not change much:

John McBride @johncodes.com · 22/10/2024

Came across this screenshot from a few months back where there was a CSS injection attack you could achieve with unicode exploits. Makes me miss the days of the internet where you could randomly and wildly customize your profile on sites!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 22/10/2024

Unreal pull from the MTG Nightmare bundle. Hooray!